Have you ever stopped to wonder why you take it for granted that your credit card transactions and bank balance will be timely, reliable, and accurate, and you assume that any information the federal government has about you is not modified by hackers or processing errors? When discussing the role of the systems of record in enterprise architectures, IBM’s mainframe systems and design patterns remain an immensely important part of the overall flow of data through processing systems, and play an outsized role in providing a reliable, scalable and well-tested engine for processing…